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At his office in New York on June 6, 2023, Danny Miller, son of the painter Nachume Miller, sorts through the sketches of his father that survived a warehouse flood. Day after day during COVID lockdowns, boxcutter in hand, Danny Miller went through crates of his fatherâs art and sketchbooks. (Reed Young/The New York Times)
by Rachel Sherman
NEW YORK, NY.- When a pipe burst in the warehouse that contained the artworks of painter Nachume Miller, flooding the storage facility with pools of water and destroying hundreds of drawings and paintings, it was a wake-up call for Millerâs son, Danny Miller. He jolted into action. Nachume Miller, who died in 1998 of a brain tumor at the age of 49, was a prolific painter â for many years creating a painting a day â with an output rivaling that of artists whose careers were far longer. About 600 works were destroyed in the flood in January 2018 â a fraction of his left-behind artistry. Danny Miller, the middle child of three sons, recovered as many soggy boxes as he could and stuck them in the trunk of his car. It wasnât until more than two years later he would return to them. âWhen the pandemic hit it was like, OK, I actually have time,â Miller, 41, who runs a creative design agency, said in a recent interview. âThereâs breathing room in my days,â he said. âI thought, this is a sign. It all happened ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) have a very different experience when they visit the Museumâs collection gallery reopening with Artists in Focus on 16 June 2023. For the first time, artistsâ works are being shown in single dedicated galleries, devised by the MCA Australia curatorial team.
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| MCA Australia opens a major new collection display: Artists in Focus | | Kimsooja is now represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles | | Mixed business at an anxious Art Basel |
Kevin Gilbert, Kiacatoo (detail), 1988, poem, vinyl on wall, installation view MCA Collection: Artist in Focus, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2023, courtesy and © the Estate of Kevin Gilbert, photograph: Jessica Maurer.
SYDNEY.- Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Australiawill have a very different experience when they visit the Museums collection gallery reopening with Artists in Focus on 16 June 2023. For the first time, artists works are being shown in single dedicated galleries, devised by the MCA Australia curatorial team. Artists in Focus, on show from 2023 to 2025, is a new series of collection displays that highlight bodies of work by significant artists in the MCA Australias permanent collection. The changing display will give visibility to artworks rarely seen, collection favorites and recent acquisitions exhibited for the first time. The first iteration of MCA Collection: Artists in Focus in 2023 presents works by Joan Brassil, Kevin Gilbert, Simryn Gill, Jumaadi, Tracey Moffatt, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, John Nixon, Leyla Stevens and Alick Tipoti. In addition, it includes a selection of over 60 bark paintings from the Ar ... More | |
Kimsooja, Deductive Object, 2017. Herning Museum Of Contemporary Art, Denmark. Permanent Installation.
NEW YORK, NY.- Throughout the past forty years, Kimsoojas conceptual practice has been dedicated to exploring the human condition through the awareness of self and others in search for a comprehensive totality. Her diverse practice combines performance, film, sculpture, photography, and site-specific installation using textiles, light, and sound to create a transcendent experience for the viewer. Rooted in the practice of sewing, Kimsooja's seminal work A Needle Woman, positions her body as a symbolic needle, a motionless figure in the center of urban environments passing through the fabric of a place and its people. Metaphorically referring to the way the moving body weaves connections with new contexts and new situations, this concept reoccurs throughout Kimsoojas practice. Often engaging with cultural signifiers, the bottari a traditional Korean bed cover used to wrap and protect personal belongings has become a central form in her practice. Representative of essential be ... More | |
La vie privée des Cosmonautes le cosmonaute invisible (1966) by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong, was featured in a new Art Basel section called Features. (Jacqueline de Jong/Pippy Houldsworth Gallery via The New York Times)
BASEL.- After an underwhelming series of auctions in New York in May, dealers exhibiting at this years Art Basel fair in Switzerland which opened to VIPs Tuesday and welcomes the general public from Friday onward hoped to quell concerns about a dip in the art market. The 53rd annual edition of this bellwether Swiss event, featuring 284 international galleries specializing in 20th- and 21st-century art, was the first under the watch of Art Basels new CEO, Noah Horowitz. It is being held in a climate of geopolitical uncertainty, with high interest rates and inflation hampering consumer spending in many countries. Theres quite a lot of anxiety around, said Paul Gray, director of Gray gallery, based in Chicago and New York. But in his 40 years of experience, he added, the art market has suffered few major downturns. Serious collectors keep buying, he said. The booths of the top international ... More |
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| Get lucky: CryptoPunk once owned by Logan Paul hits the block at Heritage June 30 | | One of the earliest July 1776 Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence will make history at Heritage | | Gustav Klimt's final masterpiece to star at Sotheby's in London with estimate in the region of $80m |
Larva Labs (Est. 2005), CryptoPunk #6837. Non-fungible token NFT PNG, 24 x 24 pixels. Minted on June 23, 2017. Ed. 1/1.
DALLAS, TX.- The tech revolution has thrust history into warp drive, and movements that once took decades or longer to establish now take just a couple of years. Six years ago this month, Larva Labs released its CryptoPunks into the world. Considered some of the most iconic NFTs ever produced and often credited with kicking off the non-fungible token craze, these portraits were algorithmically generated by computer code and number 10,000. No two are exactly alike, each featuring distinct characteristics, with some traits rarer than others. In the past year LACMA, ICA Miami and Centre Pompidou have all added Punks to their collections, signifying consensus and continued interest in this digital medium. "On June 30, we're thrilled to offer collectors a chance to collect a CryptoPunk and join an art movement with historical provenance when we offer CryptoPunk 6837 for sale with no reserve," says Taylor Curry, ... More | |
The extremely rare first broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence printed in Massachusetts -- the very fine Philip D. Sang copy -- one of only six recorded copies and only one of two in private hands.
DALLAS, TX.- There are relatively few items in Heritage Auctions' thoughtfully assembled July 8 Historical Platinum Session Signature ® Auction &emdash; just shy of 100 offerings. Yet its breadth and depth stagger when taken as a whole. How else to explain seeing in a single place a handwritten Sigmund Freud manuscript, Sam Houston's personal Map of Texas published in 1841 and, from a century later, 20-year-old Norma Jeane Dougherty's first (legal) step toward becoming movie star Marilyn Monroe? This event spans the birth of the United States of America through the Space Race that pitted this country against the Soviet Union. It includes among its estimable ranks some of the world's most important documents, including an astoundingly rare Declaration of Independence printed in Massachusetts only days after its signing in Philadelphia &emdash; and the letter in which Ringo ... More | |
Gustav Klimt, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), 1917-1918 (detail), estimate in the region of £65m ($80m). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys revealed a work that is not only the star of the summer auction season in London, but also one of the finest and most valuable works of art ever to be offered in Europe. Still standing on an easel in Gustav Klimts studio at the time of the artists unexpected and untimely death in February 1918, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) a beautiful, rich and alluring portrait of an unnamed woman[1] brings together all the technical prowess and creative exuberance that define Klimts greatest work. The last portrait Klimt painted, Dame mit Fächer is also among his finest works, created when he was still in his artistic prime, and at a moment when the formality of his earlier commissioned work gives way to a new expressivity - an ever-deeper, ever-more joyful immersion in pattern, colour and form, which - while clearly influenced by his contemporaries Van ... More |
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| U.S. orchestras gradually diversify but are slow to hire Black musicians | | kaufmann repetto is currently hosting Didgeridoo by artist Pierpaolo Campanini | | 'river by night' by Kira Freije opening today at Kestle Barton |
A musician practices for a blind audition on Dec. 10, 2018 at a Miami workshop run by the National Alliance for Audition Support, which provides financial assistance, coaching and other resources to musicians of color taking part in auditions. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- American orchestras, which have come under scrutiny in recent years for their lack of diversity, have made some inroads in hiring more Asian and Latino players over the past decade. But according to a new study, they have barely moved the needle in addressing the persistent dearth of Black musicians. Overall, people of color now make up about 21% of orchestra players nationwide, according to a study by the League of American Orchestras, up from 14% in the 2013-14 season. But the study found that the share of Black players, who have long been underrepresented, barely shifted, rising to 2.4% from 1.8%. While there were some encouraging signs the share of women conducting, for example, nearly doubled the report, presented at the leagues annual conference in Pittsburgh ... More | |
Pierpaolo Campanini, 2023. Oil and ink on polar, 55 x 55 x 3,6 cm / 21.65 x 21.65 x 1.4 in. Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto Milan / New York. Photo: Filippo Ferrarese.
MILAN.- kaufmann repetto is hosting Didgeridoo, the sixth solo exhibition to be staged by Pierpaolo Campanini with the gallery. The didgeridoo is a wind instrument that has been used for millennia by the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. Made out of a eucalyptus branch and as much as three meters or more in length, it is played by the technique known as circular breathing, which makes it possible to produce a drone or monophonic note without interrupting the flow of air. Chosen by the artist as the title of the exhibition, and at the same time the title given to each of the twelve works on show, the reference to the didgeridoo becomes a semantic device and a key to the entire project. In his new paintings the dimension of the object, in the past based on assemblages constructed in the studio, derives from the intricate interaction between images and 3D models created ... More | |
Kira Freije, Carousel , 2022. Stainless steel, mouth-blown glass, coiled wire, lightbulb 109 x 41 x 41 cm, (AP-FREIK-00031).
CORNWALL.- Kestle Barton is opening the exhibition 'river by night' by Kira Freije this Sunday, 18th of June, which will be on view until September 3rd. Kira Freije lives and works in London. She employs metal, fabric, and found materials to produce materially rich sculptures that explore surreal or exaggerated narrative situations driven by empathy. 'river by night' includes new and recent sculptural work that coalesces figurative, assemblage and functional forms, and combines industrial metalworking and glass-blowing techniques. The exhibition brings together elements that recur in Freijes work the human presence, narrative fragments, evocation of time and place, and references to interior states and to the built and natural worlds. 'river by night' is Freijes first solo exhibition in Scotland, where it is on show at Cample Line this spring before travelling down to Kestle Barton for our public opening on Sunday 18 June. ... More |
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| Grand Rapids Art Museum featuring 23 artists working at the forefront of digital and electronic art | | New monumental sculpture in Arlington Virginia memorializes the History of The Erasure of a Black Community | | A celebration of portraiture at Sotheby's London this summer |
Sabrina Gschwandtner, Expanding/Receding Squares, 2014. MEDIA, 31 ½ x 31 7/8 inches. Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma. © Sabrina Gschwandtner. Photo: Clare Britt.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Twenty-three software, video, and light-based works of art are now on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Message from Our Planet: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation. On view June 17 through September 9, 2023, the exhibition proposes that digital technology offers distinct ways for artists to communicate with future generations. Message from Our Planet celebrates digital technologies as an incredible tool for todays artists, said GRAM Associate Curator Jennifer Wcisel. The works in the exhibition encompass familiar technologies like digital video and photography to the unexpected visualization of data, assemblages of electronic components, and collages of found-video footage. We look forward to highlighting the myriad possibilities of digital art at GRAM and hope our guests leave with a new, broader understanding ... More | |
Nekisha Durett, Queen City, 2023. Photography by Luke Walter Photography. Courtesy of Nekisha Durett.
ARLINGTON, VA.- Mixed-media artist Nekisha Durrett presents her new monumental artwork Queen City, a 35 foot sculpture that includes the work of 17 ceramic artists and commemorates the history of the vibrant community that was destroyed for the construction of the Pentagon in the 1940s. Queen City, which stands less than a mile from the Pentagon campus, is part of the larger Metropolitan Park redevelopment project in Arlington, VA, which officially opened to the public on June 17. The large-scale, permanent public artwork invites the public to relearn the erased history of a historically-black community that was destroyed for the construction of the Pentagon. The artwork is open to the public from sunrise to sunset. The beauty and potential of this place was overlooked, said Nekisha Durrett. When Queen City was destroyed, so too was the potential of what this community could accomplish ... More | |
Leonor Fini, Autoportrait au turban rouge, 1938-41. Oil on canvas, est. £400,000-600,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Coinciding with the re-opening of the National Portrait Gallery in London on 22 June, and forming part of their Portrait Mode programme, this summer Sothebys will host a celebration of portraiture with a season of exhibitions and events, complementing the traditional marquee auctions of fine art. A genre revered within the grand arc of the Western art historical canon, portraiture has been integral to the way artists tell stories about people, history and culture across the ages. On 27 June, Sothebys will present Face to Face, an evening auction dedicated to the artform of portraiture, offering a tightly curated selection of masterpieces exploring the connections between artist and subjects, alongside the Modern & Contemporary and Now evening sales. Works already consigned for the sale include an exquisite painted bronze by Alberto Giacometti inspired by ancient Egyptian and Greek sculpture, a rare ... More |
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Sotheby's Spotlight: The Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Collection
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A stage musical about Belfast's punk oasis
NEW YORK, NY.- Of all the streets to open a record store, one nicknamed Bomb Alley might not have been optimal. Then again this was Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1977, when the nationalistic, sectarian violence known as the troubles made retail perilous pretty much everywhere. The situation did not deter Terri Hooley, who welcomed warring Protestants and Catholics to the shop he had optimistically called Good Vibrations. It was like a little oasis in a sea of madness, Hooley, 74, said in a recent video conversation from Belfast. The story of a lone man bridging warring communities is the kind of feel-good tale you can easily imagine as a movie, and lo and behold, it became one: Good Vibrations (2012), starring Richard Dormer (Game of Thrones, Fortitude) as Hooley. Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson then adapted their own screenplay ... More
Hew Locke receives OBE
LONDON.- Hales congratulates Hew Locke on being awarded an OBE for Services to Art in this years Kings Birthday Honours list. OBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) rewards outstanding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. Hew Locke RA (b. 1959, Edinburgh, UK) spent his formative years (1966-80) in Guyana before returning to the UK to complete an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1994) and was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2022. Locke explores the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, how different cultures fashion their identities through visual symbols of authority, and how these representations are altered by the passage of time. These explorations have led Locke to a wide range of subject matters, ... More
Unique Pokémon card featuring a winner from 2000 tournament is in play at Heritage's Trading Card Games Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A card from a 2000 Japanese tournament that is so scarce many collectors are not even aware of its existence will burst into the spotlight when it is offered in Heritage Auctions' Trading Card Games Signature ® Auction July 7-8. This one-of-a-kind prize is a Pokémon Toshiyuki Yamaguchi No. 2 Trainer 1/1 World Summer Challenge Secret Super Battle-Best In Japan CGC Trading Card Game NM/Mint 8 (The Pokémon Company, 2000) Holo, so rare that the offered copy is the only one made. Many are unaware that it even exists, in part because no images of it have surfaced until now. The 2000 World Summer Challenge included eight regional tournaments in which Japanese players competed for entry ... More
Brooklyn Museum announces Darienne Turner as Curator of Indigenous Art
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum announced that Darienne (Dare) Turner has been appointed Curator of Indigenous Art. Turner is currently Assistant Curator of Indigenous Art of the Americas at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she has been since 2017. She will join the Brooklyn Museum as its first full-time Curator of Indigenous Art in August 2023. Were so pleased to welcome Turner to our growing curatorial team, says Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director. The Brooklyn Museum is committed to addressing the exclusion and erasure of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on her considerable expertise, Turner will help us think critically about our engagement with Indigenous communities and our important collection of Indigenous art. In her new role, Turner will be instrumental in growing and researching the Brooklyn ... More
Rare Autographs, Photographs & Books auction to be held at end of month by University Archives
WILTON, CONN.- Typed letters signed by Martin Luther King, Jr., Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, as well as a Mickey Mouse sketch signed by Walt Disney, are just a few of the many desirable and highly collectible items in University Archives online-only Rare Autographs, Photographs & Books auction (plus PSA slabbed rarities) planned for Wednesday, June 28th. The auction will start promptly at 11 am Eastern time. All 413 lots in the catalog are up for viewing and bidding now, as well as Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Our June 28th sale represents an outstanding opportunity to acquire exceptional autographed material from the Civil Rights, Art, Business, U.S. Presidential, Science, International, and Military collecting categories and more, said John Reznikoff, president and owner of University Archives. ... More
"Cosmic Dance" by Diaz & Hengst on view at Leila Heller Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Leila Heller is currently hosting the exhibition Cosmic Dance by Diaz & Hengst, on view in New York since June 8th to July 21st. In this debut exhibition of Antonio Diaz and Stefan Hengst, two different mediums- ceramics and printed/painted imagery- are brought together in a series of large-scale installations. Inspired by their long term relationship that spans over 27 years, the artist duo explore their correlation as artists for the first time in Cosmic Dance, an exhibition of recent collaborative works. The exhibition was initiated by Leila Heller after she visited the artist duos studio in Chelsea. Seeing their works for the first time in one space, she recognized an artistic dialogue happening between the two, an exchange the artists call 1 + 1 = 3. The combining effect of two individuals who know each other well was coming together seamlessly through their art. The result is a s ... More
Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes for Eco-Social Renewal at ZKM
KARLSRUHE.- The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe opened a new exhibition seven prototypes at the convergence of art and science yesterday, which were created between 2020 and 2022 as research results of the international project »Driving the Human Seven prototypes for eco-social renewal«. The project was initiated by the Forecast mentoring platform in Berlin with the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), the ZKM | Karlsruhe and the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) as partners. Through an open call, scientists and artists from all over the world were invited to address the question of how all life in the world can be preserved and rethought ecologically and socially. The seven prototypes will be on view in three parts to November 26th, 2023 at the ZKM | Karlsruhe. The ZKM | Karlsruhe shows the seven ... More
Guy de Lasteyrie Collection of Japanese art sells 78% of lots at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr
PARIS.- The remarkable collection of Guy de Lasteyrie achieved more than 1.2 million yesterday at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr with 78% lots sold against a pre-sale estimate of 575,000-750,000 (14 June). This first auction of Japanese art at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris was composed of 181 lots, chiefly netsuke (toggles) and other small-scale decorative objects sported by wealthy townsmen during the Edo period (1615-1868). All top 10 lots from the sale sold above pre-sale high estimate. The top lot of the collection was a wood Netsuke of a mounted Chinese horseman by Hoshin, Kyoto, late 18th century which sold for 127,400, more than seven times its pre-sale estimate of 18,000-25,000. Another model depicting an elephant and a karako (little boy) by Tsuji, Osaka, mid/late 18th century doubled its estimate of 25,000 - 35,000, ... More
'encounters of another plot' by Patricia Piccinini now on view at John Michael Kohler Arts Center
SHEBOYGAN, WIS.- The exhibition 'encounters of another plot' opened yesterday at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, where it will continue to be on view until October 29th, 2023. As a storyteller, Patricia Piccinini gathers information from scientific research and current events to envision genetically and physically adapted organisms. These creatures, predominantly constructed with fiberglass, silicone, and hair, are geared for survival against human impact and rapidly changing environmental conditions. The creatures reconfigured bodies and new survival mechanisms hint at possibilities of new earth-dwelling species, modes of resilience, and evolutionary potentials in response to our changing Earth/home. Inspired by local ecosystems, a life-size diorama constructed with recycled materials shelters Piccininis sculptures. The diorama is accompanied ... More
Andrew Cranston's exhibition 'Never a joiner' is now on view at Ingleby Gallery as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival
EDINBURGH.- This summer, as part of this years Edinburgh Art Festival, Ingleby Gallery opened an exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow based Andrew Cranston that began yesterday and will continue through September 16th, 2023. Andrew Cranston (b.1970) is a painter-storyteller, a way of working that is enhanced by his often painting on the linen bound covers of old books. His stories coalesce in the process of making - the paintings emerging gradually through the manipulation of his materials: layering, lacquering, bleaching, collaging and constantly re-working his way into images that seem to shift backwards and forwards in time. He has described one of his works as a painting that came out of my brush ... More
The END Fund presents NYC Public Art Installation Reframing Neglect
NEW YORK, NY.- The END Fund is pleased to announce the public launch of Reframing Neglect, a new photography series curated by contemporary artist and activist Aïda Muluneh, highlighting the need to end neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) globally. Presented in partnership with the NYC Department of Transportations (DOT) Art Program, a series of 18 photos by photographers from seven African countries will be displayed on Art Display Case Exhibits throughout Water Street and Governor Lane, beginning June 5, 2023. Through fine art and documentary photography, the artists highlight the weight of NTDs on individuals and communities, using art as a tool of shared human emotion while addressing the need to spread awareness of neglected diseases. The END Fund mobilizes resources for NTDs and focuses on delivering ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden died June 18, 1464. Rogier van der Weyden (1399 or 1400 - 18 June 1464) was an Early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly successful and internationally famous in his lifetime; his paintings were exported – or taken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the Good, Netherlandish nobility, and foreign princes. In this image: Rogier van der Weyden, Werkstatt, Kreuzigung Christi (Abegg-Triptychon), um 1445, Eichenholz, Mitteltafel: 103,5 x 72,4 cm, Flügel: je 103,5 x 32,8 cm. Riggisberg bei Bern, Abegg-Stiftung. © Riggisberg, Abegg-Stiftung, Christoph von Viràg, 1999.
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